When I drive traffic to Twitter I:
a) Follow as any people as possible.
b) Follow people in my niche and take an active part in the community.
c) I don't play an active part in the twitter community.
If your answer was A you made the wrong choice. B is the correct answer in this instance. Having a lot of followers is great, but to people outside your niche your tweets might seem like spam. That's one of the reasons you really want your followers to be targeted to your niche. In addition it's very important that you are active on Twitter. Twitter is an online community and to earn peoples' trust and respect you need to play an active part. I'm currently following over 2000 people so naturally I can't stay in touch with all of them. The key is to check your replies at least once a day. Make sure you reply back to those who mention you.
I promote my blog on Twitter by:
a) Making sure that there is a link to my blog on my profile page.
b) Constantly tweeting the link to my blog.
c) Talking about MY blog constantly.
This time A is the correct choice. Your profile page is the best place to put a link to your blog. Not only will a lot of people take a look at your profile page, but it's also the only place you can really put a full-length link on Twitter. Let's face it 140 characters is not a lot if you want to post a useful message along with a link.
While you're at it, you should consider getting a custom background. If you do that make sure your domain name is visible on your background. It's not clickable, but some people will type in the URL and go to your blog.
It's also important that you post a tweet with a link to your latest blog posts. I highly recommend using a plugin like WP to Twitter to do that if you're using Wordpress. Don't just post links to your own blog though. If you do that the best-case scenario is that people will see it as being slightly selfish, the worst case scenario is that it will look like spam. Mix in as many other useful posts as possible with the tweets about your blog posts to maintain a good balance.
The tweets I post are:
a) Always marketing related.
b) Helpful and informative.
c) Not answering peoples' questions.
This is a really important question to get right. I really hope your answer is B. Being helpful and informative is the best long term Twitter strategy I can think of. While you're spending some time looking through your replies, do a couple of niche related searches to see if people have questions about your niche that you might be able to answer. This is a great way to build a good relationship with your niche. It's also a great inspiration for new blog posts. So, it really serves more than just one purpose.
If you didn't get all the questions right don't worry about it. The important thing is that you now realize there is a right way and a wrong way to go about promoting your blog on Twitter. At this point, you should go out an implement this strategy on Twitter and when you're ready for more go to http://www.gettwittertrafficnow.com
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